European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday March 5,1987 Appal to an earthquake in North totem new zealand monday left fissures in roads at left did buckled railway lines. Aftershocks hit new zealand in Wake of major earthquake Auckland new zealand up fresh aftershocks rattled towns in the Bay of plenty As fast As one a minute wednesday and Rescue teams fought heavy rain to try to repair buckled roads and Bridges in earthquake ravaged northeastern new zealand. There were no further reports of injury or destruction from the aftershocks which measured up to 4.5 on the Richter scale meaning they were capable of causing moderate damage. However Walls creaked and floors Shook with the tremors. Regional civil defense controller John upper announced a state of emergency would remain in place. Officials had earlier hoped to lift the emergency on wednesday. We re getting at least one earthquake a minute appearing at the Tara Era seismometer geologist Peter Wood reported from Tara Era one of the towns hardest hit by monday afternoon s quake other seismologists said they registered five or six tremors an hour. More than 3,000 people roasted by the initial quake which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale had refused to return to their Homes for fear of collapse from the aftershocks. They pitched tents in open Fields and remained in bams and Halls opened for the homeless. Before wednesday s episode seismologists registered More than 100 aftershocks. The initial earthquake left one Man dead and at least 25 people injured. Officials described it As new zealand s worst quake since 1931, when 256 people died in Napier Southeast of the Bay of plenty. The scene is much worse than what 1 had thought Over the farmlands Lepper said and the town of Edgecumbe is utterly utterly  officials said emergency Rescue teams wednesday began making temporary repairs to roads and Bridges in the Region. Utility workers trying to restore Power were hampered by thunderstorms and heavy Rains. It will be months before we gel Back to anything like Normal civil defense minister Peter tap Sefi said. He said damage ran into the millions of dollars but no precise total would be known until House by House inspections were made. On tuesday extra police responding to reports of looting were rushed into devastated business areas As prime minister David Lange surveyed the damage from a Light aircraft we Are beginning to encourage people to return Home but with the advice that they should take special precautions against further big quakes Lepper said. Government scientist Ian Smith agreed. We cannot Rule out another Large quake but we believe these aftershock tremors should diminish in intensity and fre Quency As time goes by he said. Lepper said he hoped the state of emergency declared for the Region with 200,000 residents could be lifted wednesday. Civil defense authorities called for volunteers to help milk hundreds of Dairy cows in pain because they had missed milking. Power failures had rendered elec tric milking machines useless. World today soviets launch rocket to resupply space station Moscow up the soviet Union tues Day launched an unmanned cargo spacecraft Progress 28, on a resupply Mission to he orbit ing space station Mir that a been manned by cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Alexander Lavicki since feb. 7, the tuts news Agency said. Progress 28 was launched to deliver to the station expendable materials. According to Tele metric information the on Board systems of the unmanned cargo spacecraft arc functioning nor Mally Tass said. On previous missions the Progress Serin Ter Ries have delivered supplies of rocket fuel and equipment like television and still camera film along with some space luxuries such As fresh fruit bread mail newspapers bottled water and fresh clothes. Its cargo capacity is about 5,000 pounds. Tass did not say when the Progress was expected to Dock with the Mir which has been in orbit 217 Miles above the Earth since feb. 20, 1986. Unknown Pushkin work discovered by soviets Moscow a a previously a known work by the soviet Union s revered poet Alexan Der Pushkin has been discovered in the depository of the capital s history museum the Tass news Agency reported wednesday. Tass said the discovery was made by archivist. Alexander Afanasyeva who also found a version or Pushkin s poem to Anna Kern and a note Book containing copies of other famous verses. The thin Sheet of mail stationery carries the poem coquette in Pushkin s bold hand writing Tass said. Tass described the poem As a ocular mis Sive but did not provide any of its verses or describe it further it was not Clear Why the item Shad not been discovered at the depository ear Lier Tass said the new poem is signed and dated illegible but the Page appears to Nave been writ ten on Jan. 23, 1834. Separation period to get divorce in Italy reduced Rome a the mandatory separation period before a divorce can be granted in Italy has been reduced from five to three years under legislation Given final approval by parliament on tuesday. The Justice committee of the chamber of deputies the lower House of parliament approved the change which was already passed by the Senate just As Premier Citino Praxi was announcing his resignation. Political leaders had agreed to act quickly on the Bill to avoid delays caused by a political crisis. Parliament legalized divorce in 1970, but the Law was conservative by the standards of Man Western countries. Because of the five year Sepa ration period and Italy s slow moving courts some couples have waited As Long As 10 years for their divorce. The new Law also stiffens Alimony provisions turkish efs attack kurdish rebel Camps in Iraq Ankara Turkey a turkish air Force jews wednesday bombed kurd ish rebel Camps and ammunition depots in Iraq in retaliation for guerrilla attacks on turkish Frontier villages that have killed 34 civilians in the past month the government said. Thirty cts bombed selected targets in three different areas on the iraqi Side of Turkey s Southeast Border in a 30-min Ute operation that began at 8 a.m., government spokesman Hasan Celal Guzel old reporters. In october 1984, Turkey and Iraq signed an agreement that allows their armed forces to operate up to six Miles inside each other s territory when in hot Pursuit of kurdish rebels. Guze did not say How far into Iraq the turkish jets infiltrated. He said More information would be available after Aerial photographs of the raid Are studied by turkish officials kurdish insurgents 10 Days ago raided a turkish Frontier Village and killed 14 peasants most of them women and Chil Dren bringing to 34 the number of Vil lagers killed m the Southeast Region in the past month authorities said. Turkey and Iraq share a 200-mile Bor Der. Last August the turkish air Force undertook a similar bombing raid in Iraq following the slaying of 12 soldiers by suspected guerrillas. Turkish military units have been fight ing kurdish guerrillas since the summer of 1984. So far 133 military personnel 344 civilians and 242 insurgents have died in the conflict by official count. The guerrillas almost All members of the kurdish labor party stage hit and run attacks on turkish military garrisons and settlements near the Border and then withdraw to bases in Northern Iraq where the iraqi government h s Little control because of its preoccupation with the 6w-year-old Iran Iraq War. For two years the turkish government has been arming villagers and urging them to resist the rebels. As a result the guerrillas have changed tactics and target uncooperative civilians More than Mili tary units in their raids. The kurdish labor party is a marxist Leninist group with Headquarters in Syria that  to set up an Independent marxist Kurdistan in East Turkey. Intelligence sources estimate the kurdish labor party s strength at a few thousand members